XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: invalid@invalid.com   
      
   On 10/17/2016 8:50 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   > Serigo  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/16/2016 8:21 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   >>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> is that it ? start small and grow them ?? anything else ?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> your really not into this Mars thing are you.   
   >   
   >>>> There is no such thing as small when talking about a steel prduction   
   >>>> facility carried in a rocket. The smallest excavator John Deere makes   
   >>>> weighs about 2 tons.   
   >>>>   
      
   >>> So about 2% of the cargo lift to Mars of one of Musk's colonization   
   >>> rockets, then.  And he's talking about launching around 10 of those   
   >>> per 100 people going to the colony.  Hardly a big deal.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> in your imagination, "no big deal"   
   >>   
   >   
   > It's not.   
      
   yes it is, nothing exists yet, and you say "no big deal"   
      
   you are dominated by your imagination.   
      
   I'm sorry you think 2% is a big deal, but it's just not.   
      
   2% of nothing, is still nothing.   
      
      
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> what is the current failure rate of a Musk Mars Rocket ?  100%   
   >>   
   >   
   > Right now it's 0% since it has 0 failures.   
      
   yes, the reliability is 0%.  Nothing.   
      
   the failure rate is 100% as they have never been able to fly this rocket.   
      
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